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The rice sector is regulated by the National Food Authority, with imports under a statutory monopoly. Consistent with previous studies done on the ric..

Financial protection of patients is considered a key component of health systems, and has been a consistent policy goal of the Department of Health. O..

The Complete Treatment Pack (COMPACK) program is a medicine access program designed to reach the poorest of the poor with complete treatment regimens ..

Catastrophic illnesses can push a household into poverty by causing unmanageable, or catastrophic, expenditures for their treatment or management. Kal..

The PhilHealth Customer Assistance, Relations and Empowerment Staff (CARES) project was launched in 2012 to help members and their families navigate t..

The main feature in this issue dwells on the critical policy issues in irrigation development confronting the agriculture sector. In particular, it di..

The government has decided to utilize the public-private partnership (PPP) program to help improve access to quality hospitals and health care facilit..

Public-private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly being utilized to meet development goals of many countries and there is much potential for PPPs to..

Education and learning depend on good health and nutrition, especially among young children. Thus, investments have been made for these two forms of h..

The 21-member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have different levels of economic development and, in turn, differentiated sta..

Hosting the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) 2015 provides an opportunity for the Philippines to advance its economic interests in services tr..

Several elicitation techniques were employed to gauge the attitudes to risk of smallholder high-value crop farmers in the southern Philippines. Result..

The bus transport sector evolved from a highly regulated and concentrated market with a handful of players in the 1970s to a more liberalized albeit s..

While economic growth is important for poverty reduction, the rather stellar performance of the Philippines in economic growth has still not translate..

The expenditures for employer-provided health care in private establishments and for student health services in private schools are two components est..